House Committee Targets U.C. Berkeley Program for China Ties

by Ana Swanson at nytimes.com A congressional committee focused on national security threats from China said it had “grave concerns” about a research partnership between the University of California, Berkeley, and several Chinese entities, claiming that the collaboration’s advanced research could help the Chinese government gain an economic, technological or military advantage. In a letter […]

US-sanctioned Chinese chip start-up Moore Threads unveils GPU-based computing centre, AI graphics card

by Che Pan at scmp.com A Chinese graphics processing unit (GPU) start-up that has been put on a US trade blacklist has introduced a new graphics card along with what it called the country’s first GPU-based computing hub for artificial intelligence (AI) training. Moore Threads Intelligent Technology, a Beijing-based designer of GPUs tailored for AI […]